Defenders of the Black Hills
PUBLIC SAFETY CLOSURE ORDER IN EFFECT
Sioux Ranger District
P.O. Box 37
Camp Crook, SD 57724
Riley Pass mine waste contains hazardous substances including arsenic, molybdenum, thorium, radium and uranium Due to the human health, safety and environmental concerns related to elevated levels of these substances, the Forest Supervisor has closed the bluffs and some adjacent to all public entry through a special order. The special order has been placed on signs in the Riley Pass area and throughout the North Cave Hills.The order and closure maps are also available upon request.
March 2013 Riley Pass Newsletter, Page 10
URGENT -- SENATE BILL 141Â Hello Defenders, Below, please find a message sent by the Clean Water Alliance, of which we are a part. It is urgent that the following actions occur on Monday, and again, if you can, attend the Hearing on Tuesday in Pierre. Remember, they are on Central time. Thank you. Charmaine White Face, Coordinator Â
Powertech Uranium's application for a state permit to spray wastewaterHello Defenders, Regarding the applications being put in by Powertech Inc., the Canadian company that plans on mining in the Dewey-Burdock area, there are still a few permits they have to get. The SD Department of Environment and Natural Resources will soon conduct a hearing on a wastewater permit. However, if anyone wishes to say anything, as mentioned below, they need to let DENR know by letter postmarked Jan. 18. Please see the following sent by the Clean Water Alliance. Please consider sending a letter in so you can comment at the Hearing. If you live far away, please consider sending a letter in to DENR with your comments. We have been trying to stop this company for years. Let's get them stopped now! Thank you. Charmaine White Face, Coordinator
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"Defenders of the Black Hills is a group of volunteers without racial or tribal boundaries whose mission is to preserve, protect, and restore the environment of the 1851 and 1868 Treaty Territories, Treaties made between the United States and the Great Sioux Nation."
Speaking about radioactive fallout, the late President John F. Kennedy said,
"Even then, the number of children and grandchildren with cancer in their bones, with leukemia in their blood, or with poison in their lungs might seem statistically small to some, in comparison with natural health hazards. But this is not a natural health hazard and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of even one human life, or the malformation of even one baby who may be born long after we are gone, should be of concern to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics toward which we can be indifferent."
July 26, 1963 upon signing the ban on above ground nuclear tests
"The radiation levels in parts I visited with my students were higher than those in the evacuated zones around the Fukushima Nuclear disaster...." Nuclear Physics Professor Kimberly Kearfott, University of Michigan, in comparing the readings obtained in northwestern South Dakota at the Cave Hills open-pit, abandoned uranium mines.
"It must always be remembered that the various Indian tribes were once independent and sovereign nations, and that their claim to sovereignty long predates that of our own government."
Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court Justice
(McClanahan v. Sate Tax Commission, 1973)